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How to prevent Chrome from refreshing page when viewing source?

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Mar 15, 202624791 views
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Problem

When viewing page source in Google Chrome, the browser opens a new tab and basically pastes the URL in with the prefix. This is undesirable. As a developer, I may include some diagnostic output that is only visible in the source after submitting a form. When Chrome Refreshes the page to view the so…

Error Output

<pre>
  <?= print_r($_POST, true) ?>
</pre>
<form action="" method="post">
  <input id="foo" name="foo" value="bar" />
  <input type="submit" />
</fo…

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Fix for: How to prevent Chrome from refreshing page when viewing source?

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From the bug report page, the workaround mentioned in comment 12 works: In the Developer Tools, enable Resource Tracking. (If it was off, enabling it will resubmit the request that generated the currently visible page, either POST or GET.) In the li…

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